This week the Italian Cultural Institute in New York will be reading my translation of Michele Mari's enthralling Verdigris, and I'm looking forward to joining the discussion. Still some spots left, can RSVP here!: iicnewyork.esteri.it/en/gli_event... @andotherstories.bsky.social
BOOK CLUB Book of the month: Verdigris by Michele Mari Translated by Brian Robert Moore Special guest: Brian Robert Moore, translator, winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize and the 2025 Italian Pro...iicnewyork.esteri.it
Repping @wasafirimag.bsky.social at our event at Bàrd Books tonight; and it’s a striking, striking reminder that London - the wider UK too - can and should provide a home and a springboard for all and every kind of global thinking, writing and making.
Happy Pride Month! I recently finished Eva Baltasar’s gorgeous triptych about desire, queer identity and motherhood. Adored this one, but Boulder remains my favourite. Book: @andotherstories.bsky.social Drink: Cristal 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Rishi Dastidar
‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Book 53: Karishma Jobanputra's The Body of the Thing (from @andotherstories.bsky.social).
Dreaming of Dead People is the last of Rosalind Belben’s four 1970s novels, published in 1979 – it would be ten years until the next one. The novel is made up of six sections, connected by the narr…
My review of Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza, newly translated to English by Christina MacSweeney and out with @andotherstories.bsky.social - for @ftweekend.com: www.ft.com/content/8c92...
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The Pulitzer-winning author weaves an account of a real-life cotton workers’ strike in Mexico in the 1930s with her own family history, memoir and invented tales
Out today across the UK and Europe, KIERON SMITH, BOY by James Kelman
‘a magnificent and important novel’ Irvine Welsh
Available from your local bookshop and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
www.andotherstories.org/kieron-smith...
You can now savour, in all their juiciness, the acceptance speeches from this year’s International Booker Prize winners Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King.
Head on over to our Ampersand blog:
www.andotherstories.org/2026/05/20/t...
